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T-Mobile finally made a highly anticipated announcement—that it would kill off the mobile phone contract, dubbing itself the "Un-Carrier."
As we reported at the time, customers can bring their own device or pay an additional fee to buy a new phone—essentially shifting the carrier subsidy entirely to the consumer. For example, a new Samsung Galaxy S III requires a purchase price of $110 (but retails for $550) with an additional $16 fee for two years.
On a month-to-month contract, if a customer wanted to switch carriers before the two years, he or she would have to either buy out the remainder of the contract or return the phone—as stated in T-Mobile's company policy. But the Washington state attorney general didn't take too kindly to T-Mobile's advertisements that tout the "no contract" aspect of the carrier.
According to a new court order signed Thursday by the State Attorney General's office and T-Mobile, customers who entered contracts between March 26 and April 25 may now obtain a full refund for equipment and cancel plans without being required to pay the remaining balance on the hardware.
Notably, T-Mobile will also be required to state in all advertisements the true cost of handset purchase, including the requirement that the customer maintain a two-year agreement while paying off a financing plan. In addition, T-Mobile will pay over $26,000 to the State Attorney General's office in reimbursement of legal fees, according to the Seattle Times.
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Just before the American Library Association named the winners of the Newbery and Caldecott medals that have preoccupied me for much of this week, the National Book Critics Circle announced the finalists for its annual awards in six categories: fiction, poetry, criticism, biography, general nonfiction and autobiography or memoir. The big news this year is the books that aren't on the list: Toni Morrison's A Mercy and Joseph O'Neill's Netherland. Both novels have won stellar reviews, and I predicted that O'Neill would win this one. (Neither book made the shortlist for the 2008 National Book Awards, either, but A Mercy came out after the deadline for entries.) Read the list of NBCC finalists and tell me what you think.
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BOSTON — The dispute over where to bury suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev escalated Wednesday as a Massachusetts police chief urged someone to step forward with a cemetery plot, saying: "We are not barbarians. We bury the dead."
Worcester police Chief Gary Gemme's plea came a day after he said that a deal struck Monday to bury the 26-year-old's remains at a state prison site dissolved, with state officials no longer offering cooperation Tuesday.
State corrections officials didn't immediately return a phone message Wednesday.
Police said it's costing the department tens of thousands of dollars to provide security at the funeral home that is holding Tsarnaev's body, and officer details are wasting precious resources.
Gemme said sending the body to Russia is "not an option," as Boston Mayor Thomas Menino suggested Tuesday, when he also said through an aide that he didn't want the bombing suspect buried in Boston.
Worcester funeral home director Peter Stefan has said none of the 120 offers of graves from the U.S. and Canada have worked out because officials in those cities and towns don't want the body.
At the same time, U.S. law enforcement officials have been trying to determine whether Tamerlan Tsarnaev was indoctrinated or trained by militants during a 2012 visit to Dagestan, a Caspian Sea province that has become the center of a simmering Islamic insurgency.
On Tuesday, FBI director Robert Mueller discussed the bombing investigation with his Russian counterparts during a trip to Moscow. The U.S. and Russia have been collaborating on a criminal investigation into the late 26-year-old and his brother, 19-year-old bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Authorities allege the two brothers carried out the April 15 bombings near the race's finish line, using pressure cookers packed with explosives, nails, ball bearings and metal shards. The attack killed three people and injured more than 260 others.
Tamerlan died following a gunbattle with police, and authorities captured Dzhokhar after a massive manhunt following his escape from the same encounter. The younger brother is now in a prison hospital, facing charges that could bring the death penalty.
On Tuesday, the father of a student charged with conspiracy in the Boston Marathon bombing case said his son believes Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is "not a human" if he's responsible for the attacks.
Amir Ismagulov, the father of Azamat Tazhayakov, also insisted during an Associated Press interview that his son is not a terrorist.
He said he has visited his son once in prison since arriving in the United States from Kazakhstan more than a week ago. He said he left flowers several times at a memorial near the Boston Marathon finish line at the 19-year-old's request.
"Azamat loves the United States and the people of the United States," Ismagulov said as Arkady Bukh, his son's new Russian-speaking lawyer, translated for him. "He is not aggressive. He is not a terrorist. He is a simple boy."
Tazhayakov is in a federal prison on charges that he conspired to destroy, conceal and cover up objects belonging to Tsarnaev, a college friend from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine if found guilty.
Ismagulov, 46, who works in the oil field business in Kazakhstan, described his son as an engineering student who was "happy in life" before "in one day, his life was shattered." He said Tazhayakov told him "it took days to get out of the shock because of the accusations" against him.
Bukh, a New York City lawyer from the former Soviet Union, said Tazhayakov's family is "absolutely devastated" over the bombings.
He stressed that Tazhayakov was cooperating with the government before his arrest last week.
The lawyer said his client helped hand over Tsarnaev's laptop to the FBI on April 19 after he and friend Dias Kadyrbayev learned that federal agents were looking for them. Kadyrbayev also is charged with obstruction of justice in the bombing case.
A third college friend, Robel Phillipos, got out of federal lockup on $100,000 bond Monday while awaiting trial for allegedly lying to federal investigators.
Tazhayakov's next court date is May 14, but Bukh said arguing for his release would be a "problematic issue" in part because immigration agents could try to detain him again even if he satisfies bail conditions.
Authorities initially charged Tazhayakov and Kadyrbayev with violating the terms of their student visas while attending UMass Dartmouth.
Immigration officials said Tuesday that they have temporarily suspended the immigration court proceedings against the two men but will continue the immigration removal process after their criminal cases are resolved.
The FBI has alleged that on April 18, just hours after surveillance camera photos of the Tsarnaev brothers became public, the three students went to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's dorm room and removed his backpack and laptop computer.
Authorities said one of them later threw the backpack in the garbage, and it wound up in a landfill, where law enforcement officers found it. In the backpack were fireworks that had been emptied of their gunpowder.
Bukh said the criminal complaint alleges it was Kadyrbayev, and not his client, who threw away the backpack with the fireworks.
Ismagulov said his son told him he never intended to help Tsarnaev hide evidence. He also said Tazhayakov wasn't sure if Tsarnaev was one of the suspects in the first photos that were released because those images weren't high quality.
"He would never intend to do anything bad to people in the United States," Ismagulov said of his son.
He said he has left flowers at the memorial site because his son asked him "to express condolences to innocent people who were hurt and killed."
In other developments Tuesday, the administrator of the One Fund Boston charity said potential recipients should have low expectations because the $28 million fund won't pay out nearly enough to fully compensate the families of those who died or who suffered injuries.
Attorney Kenneth Feinberg said at a public meeting in Boston that his draft plan for distributing the money reserves the highest payments for the families of those killed at the marathon and for the relatives of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer who authorities say the bombing suspects killed.
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We received 21 entries. Next time we'll give you more time, there will be more contests and give aways during the year. We promise.
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Some recipes were great, some were very easy to prepare, some however showed very little imagination or creativity. It was not easy to choose a winner… We deliberated, debated and agonized before reaching a final decision especially between #2 and #3 below.
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Tikvah's Cheesecake
Crust: any graham cracker pie crust
2lbs unwhipped cream cheese
1.5 cup sugar
1.5 tablespoon Lemon juice
1 pinch salt
4 eggs
Preheat oven to 350 F
Beat cream cheese & sugar until soft. add rest of ingredients and mix.
Pour on top of crust and bake for 45 minutes.
Remove and let stand for 10 minutes.
2 cups sour cream
1/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
spread on top and bake again for 10 minutes
keep in oven with oven off for 2 hours to prevent cracking. refrigerate and serve cold
this can also be made into cheese snacks baked in cup cake holders. For cheese snacks no crust is needed. Also cute idea for mini cakes is to put a sandwich cookies on bottom of pan & then the batter in the cup cake holder
Submitted by: Tikvah V. from Flatbush
Cheesecake Swirl Brownies
3 eggs (2 whites split separately, 1 whole)
6 tablespoons margarine
1 cup sugar (split in 3/4 & 1/4)
3 tablespoons vanilla
½ cup flour
1/4 cup cocoa
1 package cream-cheese (8 oz)
In a small mixing bowl beat marg. & 3/4 c. sugar until crumbly.
Add 1 whole egg & 1 egg white & vanilla. Mix well.
Add flour & cocoa. Beat until blended.
Pour into spritzed 9″ square baking pan.
In a milchig mixing bowl, beat cream cheese and 1/4 c. sugar until smooth. Beat in 1 egg white.
Spoon-drop this mixture over the brownies to pretty much cover the top.
Cut through the batter with a knife to swirl it together.
Bake at 350 for 25-35 minutes or until set & edges pull away from side of pan.
Cool on a wire rack.
I made for my sister's milchig sukkos party, as well as for shavuos every year. Big hit!
I got it from a magazine years ago, so I'll post the pictures from their site, as they are pros at taking perfect pictures.
If you use reduced-fat margarine & reduced fat cream cheese, then here is the nutritional info:
Nutritional Analysis
1 brownie equals:
167 calories
7 grams fat (3 g saturated fat)
28 mg cholesterol
108 mg sodium
23 grams carbohydrates
trace fiber
4 grams protein
Diabetic Exchanges: 1-1½ starch, 1 fat
Submitted by: Faigy T. from Crown Heights
Brachie's Three Layered Cheesecake
1 cup flour
1/2 cup chopped nuts
6 tablespoons brown sugar
6 tablespoons softened butter
3/4 cup ground filberts
2lbs cream cheese
1 teaspoon vanilla sugar
1 1/2 cup sugar
4 eggs
1/8 teaspoon almond extract
2 oz baking chochlate
1 bar white milk chochlate
1 1/2 teaspoons coffee
3 teaspoons water
1 teaspoon light corn syrup
1. – Combine crust ingredients in mixer until smooth
2. – Press into 9″ springform pan. bake for 10 minutes in a preheated over to 375 and set aside
3. – Mix cream cheese until smooth adding vanilla sugar,sugar and eggs one at a time
4. – Remove 2 cups cheese batter mix with ground filberts and almond extract. Pour onto crust and level with metal beveled spatula.
5. – freeze for 1 hour
6. – Melt chochalate. Remove another 2 cups cheese mixture and add to melted chochlate. Pour over filbert layer leveling well.
7. – Freeze for 20 minutes
8. – Pour remaining batter onto chochlate mixture
9. – Half fill 9×13 pan w/ water. Wrap bottom of springform pan w/ heavy duty foil and place pan in water
10. – Bake for 2 hours in a preheated to 350 oven
11. – Let cool for another 2 hours w/o opening oven door
12. – Refrigerate for at least 6 hours
13. – Melt topping. over a small flame until dissolved
14. – pour over cake allowing it to drizzile down sides.
15. – can be decorated with chocolate curls or left just as is
This winning recipe was submitted by: Brachie S., from Lakewood
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NEW YORK — For humanitarian and economic reasons, the federal Bureau of Prisons should grant more early releases to incapacitated and terminally ill prisoners, two advocacy groups say in a report depicting current policies as sometimes "cruel as well as senseless."
The report, issued Friday by Human Rights Watch and Families Against Mandatory Minimums, says the Bureau of Prisons oversees more than 218,000 inmates, yet has recommended an average of only two dozen compassionate releases a year since 1992.
Human Rights Watch senior adviser Jamie Fellner, a co-author of the report, said Congress in 1984 granted federal courts the authority to reduce sentences under "extraordinary and compelling" circumstances. However, the report says federal prisoners can't seek such a sentence reduction from the courts on their own; only the BOP has the authority to file a motion requesting judicial consideration of early release.
"Justice sometimes requires compassion, even for people who have broken the law," Fellner said. "But prison officials prevent judges from deciding when compassion requires a sentence reduction. This is unfair to the prisoners and costly to the country."
Responding by email, the BOP said it reviews each early-release request on a case-by-case basis and also takes into consideration information provided by the U.S. Attorney's Office.
"It is the bureau's responsibility to consider public safety" when determining whether to pursue these motions, the BOP statement said.
Though the new report is generally critical of BOP policies, it cites some "promising signs" — including formation of a BOP working group to look at the compassionate release program. It said the BOP's new director, Charles Samuels, has expressed interest in reforming the program and noted that the number of release cases forwarded to the courts had risen slightly under his leadership, to 37 between Jan. 1 and Nov. 15 of this year.
The report urges Congress to change the existing law, which gives prisoners no right to challenge BOP decisions in court. It also says the BOP should bring compassionate release motions to court whenever a prisoner presents compelling arguments, regardless of whether prison officials believe early release is warranted.
The BOP's budget is more than $6 billion, and care of ailing and aging prisoners is a major factor in rising expenses. The report says one way to curb these costs would be increased use of compassionate release for prisoners posing minimal risk to public safety.
The report says the BOP does not keep an overall count of prisoners who seek compassionate release, but provided a breakdown for the Federal Medical Center in Butner, N.C., which houses nearly 1,000 inmates with medical problems. During 2011, the report says, the warden made decisions on 147 requests for compassionate release and approved 12 of them.
Based in 2010 figures, the per capita cost of caring for a prisoner in a medical center such as Butner was $40,760, compared to the BOP's overall per capita cost of $25,627, the report said.
The BOP requires prisoners to be within 12 months of death or profoundly and irrevocably incapacitated to be eligible for compassionate release consideration. It generally does not make motions to the courts on non-medical grounds, though the report says this could be done — for example, for prisoners seeking early release to care for dying family members.
The report acknowledges that many Americans oppose early release, especially for offenders who inflicted serious harm on victims. But it argues that a prison sentence that initially seemed justified may become disproportionately severe due to changed circumstances, such as grave illness.
"Keeping a prisoner behind bars when it no longer meaningfully serves any legitimate purpose cannot be squared with human dignity and may be cruel as well as senseless," the report says.
Mai Fernandez, executive director of the National Center for Victims of Crime, offered this advice to the BOP: "We hope that, in fairness to victims, any compassionate release process provides notice to victims and the opportunity for them to be heard."
Many states have laws permitting early release for medical or other reasons, but Fellner said these provisions were "greatly underutilized" in most states.
The report cites several examples of inmates who unsuccessfully sought to have early-release requests considered by the courts.
Among them is a 73-year-old inmate at the Butner medical center who has served half of a 20-year federal sentence for sexually touching a child, taking lewd pictures and possessing child pornography. Because of a spinal condition, the inmate is now permanently paralyzed below his upper chest and will require skilled nursing care until he dies, according to the report.
The report says Butner's warden rejected his bid to be considered for early release, contending that he was still deemed a threat to society who deserved to stay imprisoned out of deference to his victim.
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For all the talk about a "post-PC" world, most people use smartphones or tablets as an addition to their existing technological arsenal, rather than a replacement for a standard laptop or desktop. In fact, there are a number of ways to combine the capabilities of your PC and mobile device that can make your tablet or smartphone an even more powerful tool. In this article, the first in a series, we'll take a look at ways to use your computers and mobile devices in tandem to get more out of each of them.
Multi-monitor setups are becoming increasingly common on desks in homes and workplaces, and as a multi-monitor user I can say that I've developed quite a few habits and workflows that rely on that second monitor being there. I normally use one display as my primary workspace—mostly used for writing, researching, and general Web browsing—and the second display for things I like to be aware of at a glance, but don't actively need every minute of every day—things like e-mail, Twitter, and IRC. While I'm traveling, I miss the convenience and flexibility of that second screen.
We've seen a number of solutions intended to resolve this problem—USB-powered monitors like this one from AOC seem the most practical, and we've also seen laptops with second screens built in or with bizarre ultra-wide displays—but if you already have a tablet, there are a few apps that can get you your second monitor without much additional cash outlay. The one we'll be talking about today is Splashtop's XDisplay.
Installing XDisplay and the Splashtop Streamer
To use XDisplay, you'll need to download the XDisplay app for your iPad and the Splashtop Streamer client software for your PC or Mac from Splashtop's site. Both software pieces are free, but you can only use XDisplay for ten minutes at a time unless you make an additional $4.99 in-app purchase. The communication done between the computer and the tablet is carried over WiFi, obviating the need for cables and making it possible to add a third monitor to a system with a GPU that normally only supports two.
Installing the Splashtop Streamer may require you to restart your computer, but otherwise the install is straightforward. Once it's installed, the Splashtop Streamer configuration window will open. There are a few different settings here for use with the other Splashtop apps, but to use XDisplay we only need to do a couple of things. First, in the Advanced tab, create a 8-20 digit alphanumeric code that will be required when you connect your tablet to your computer. Next, under Settings, make sure that "Enable auto launch" is checked, and (in OS X only) scroll all the way to the bottom of the window and install the virtual display driver. Restart your computer if asked.
Using XDisplay
Once you've successfully installed and configured XDisplay and the Splashtop Streamer, the rest is pretty simple—fire up the app, and it will scan your network searching for computers with the streamer software installed. Choose your computer from the list and enter your PIN, and you can begin using your new tablet monitor as you would any external monitor.
Once you're connected, you can set up display mirroring or extending the same way you would with a physically connected display. Tapping the iPad's screen with three fingers will bring up Splashtop's controls, which you can use to prioritize either screen sharpness or speed (a sharper screen will use more bandwidth and processing power, while a faster screen will be a bit blurrier), choose whether audio comes out of your computer's speakers or your iPad's, or bring up the on-screen keyboard for text entry. You can even manipulate items on the iPad's "desktop" with touch, though Windows and OS X user interface elements aren't very finger-friendly.
Since the communication is happening over WiFi, performance lags a bit even on a fast 5GHz 802.11n network—since limiting my network to 802.11g speeds didn't significantly increase the amount of lag, this would seem to be a problem endemic to the program, rather than one that could be solved with more bandwidth. Because the Splashtop Streamer pushes the external display with the CPU rather than the GPU, it can also be pretty processor-hungry—while playing a YouTube video on the iPad-monitor, Activity Monitor showed that the Splashtop software was using about 40 percent of the CPU on my 2010 MacBook Air. This Air is using a 1.6GHz Core 2 Duo that is pretty anemic by today's standards, though, so you may not notice this issue as much on newer or faster computers. My last nit to pick is with color accuracy, which is generally decent, but reds in particular seem to get a bit washed out in the move from my host computer to the iPad-monitor.
For daily use, XDisplay probably won't cut it as an extra monitor—the caveats I've listed make this app more of a stopgap solution than something you'd want sitting on your desk every day. It's still perfectly usable for occasional travelers who need a second screen in a pinch, though—at least for all activities that don't require precise motion, quick response time, or extremely accurate color (editing photos or gaming, for example). For those who travel constantly, finding room for a small LCD monitor (USB or otherwise) in your luggage might still be worth the trouble.


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I can't remember where I read this last week, thus no link to back it up. But a reporter who struck me as credible made the statement that the U.S. military is initiating no new aviation programs outside of drones. Sounds like the kind of generalization that's just waiting to be shot down. Nevertheless, one can imagine that becoming the case in the not-too-distant future.
At Danger Room, David Axe provides us with an indication why:
Orders grounding the Air Force's F-22 Raptor stealth fighter spread from Virginia to Alaska last week, briefly sidelining up to half of the roughly 170 Raptors. It's becoming clearer by the day that the problems vexing America's premier stealth fighter are neither minor nor temporary.
The current lock-down echoes a fleet-wide grounding between May and September that was prompted by a suspected flaw in the $150-million-a-copy jet's on-board oxygen-generating system. Pilots had reported mid-flight blackouts and disorientation, possibly resulting from too much nitrogen in their air mix.
As a result "the Air Force's increasingly out-of-practice F-22 pilots enjoyed just a few weeks of refresher training before an incident in the skies over Virginia prompted the latest stand-down. … With investigators still flummoxed and pilots still blacking out, it's a safe bet that the stealth fighters — and their pilots — will be spending a lot of time on the ground for the foreseeable future.
In an update to his post, Axe informs us that the F-22s have since been cleared for takeoff again. "But the oxygen problem remains unresolved — and could easily prompt another grounding at any time."
Let's hope that none of those groundings come in the form of an F-22 turned lawn dart. Meanwhile, these types of problems — with neither the aircraft or its rusty pilots truly airworthy — are yet another excuse for the military to requisition more drones. Would that drones represented a movement towards a less belligerent foreign policy, but alas, in that regard, it's but a lateral move.


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A commercial ZFS solution is (still) coming to Mac OS X, thanks to former Apple filesystem and OS engineer Don Brady (who previously worked on the abandoned internal Apple project to port ZFS). Brady and his company, Ten's Complement, just launched a limited private beta in hopes to have the software polished and ready for a summer launch this year.
Ars spoke with Brady, who has a long history engineering filesystems for Mac OS and Mac OS X, to find out a little about his previous work with ZFS at Apple, and what Mac users can expect to gain from Ten's Complement's port of ZFS.
ZFS versus HFS+
ZFS, aka Zettabyte File System, is a 128-bit file system originally designed by Sun in 2004. The main advantage of 128-bit is that it is possible to have files as large as 16 exabytes on total storage volumes up to a theoretical 256 quadrillion zettabytes. A zettabyte of storage might be hard to comprehend—it's equivalent to over a billion terabytes, or roughly enough space to store 251 billion single-layer DVD movies without further compression. ZFS creator Jeff Bonwick noted that filling a 128-bit file system "would exceed the quantum limits of earth-based storage." So ZFS is designed with massive future capacity in mind.
But ZFS also includes a number of features designed to simplify disk management and maintain data integrity. All disks can be assigned to a single pool of storage, and ZFS keeps track of where all data is on the physical hardware. The storage pools can be arranged as mirrors or RAID-Z groups with data redundancy. Each data block written to a device has an automatic checksum which can be examined for data integrity. If any data gets corrupted, which can happen "silently," ZFS can use redundant mirror or parity data to repair the corruption without any user intervention or lengthy rebuilding.
To prevent the sort of errors that can happen during write operations, ZFS (like BtrFS and others) uses the concept of copy-on-write (COW). This means that a copy of the filesystem structure is made when in the process of writing new blocks. If a drive failure happens during the write, the original data is still accessible and the file system knows that the write operation didn't complete. Because of COW, the file system can automatically make snapshots of files as they are created and edited, recording only the changes for more efficient performance.
Though ZFS was originally developed for Sun's commercial Solaris operating system, it was made open source in 2005. Now part of Open Solaris, it has been ported to other UNIX-like operating systems, including Linux and FreeBSD.
The current file system used on Mac OS X is HFS+, an evolution of the original Hierarchal File System designed for the original Mac OS. HFS was 16-bit, which at the time of Mac OS 8 in the late '90s was becoming a critical constraint on the hardware team. Larger, multi-gigabyte hard drives began to exceed the capacity of HFS. A next-generation file system was planned, but HFS+ was designed as a stop-gap measure until that project was finished.
Brady was the technical lead on the original HFS+ team. "The initial HFS+ was primarily about addressing the block count problem," he told Ars. "Since we believed it was only a stop gap solution, we just went from 16 to 32 bits. Had we known that it would still be in use 15 years later with multi-terabyte drives, we probably would have done more design changes!"
The HFS+ team had about six months to re-write HFS in C from the original 68K assembly code before adding changes. Besides the increased file capacity and ability to access larger disk sizes, the team also added in Unicode support at the behest of engineers on the international team.
Brady later worked on the Mac OS X team, and was involved in much of the work to bring HFS+ to Mac OS X. "Since Mac OS X was Unix and HFS+ wasn't, I had to start adding all the missing features—symlinks, hardlinks, POSIX conformance—and in a way that was backwards compatible to Mac OS 8," he said.
"In hindsight, I'm amazed at how we were able to extend HFS+ so much," Brady added. That includes the extensible metadata used by Mac OS X's Spotlight search, live partition resizing used for Boot Camp, and the Adaptive Hot File Clustering used to reduce seek times for oft-used system files. "I think the last change I was involved with was the directory hard links necessary for Time Machine. Since then, Apple engineers have managed to add even more features, to my amazement."
Skunk works: ZFS at Apple
After working on porting and optimizing HFS+ for Mac OS X, Brady was ready to move on to something new. Yet another next-generation file system had been planned for Mac OS X, but Brady wasn't involved in that team. But, he told Ars, "at the time I had 2 terabytes of family videos and photos, and I was motivated to get a file system that addressed data integrity. So Chris [Emura] and I started a ZFS port as sort of a skunk works project."
Brady and Emura originally worked on porting ZFS on the side before it became an official project within Apple. "When I heard of the FreeBSD port, I was sort of motivated to beat them and get up and running first. I think Pawel [Jakub Dawidek] ended up winning by a week," Brady said.
Work on ZFS at Apple continued even as Amit Singh's MacFUSE project enabled users to load ZFS as a user space module. That eventually lead to read-only support being included in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
"If I had any knowledge of unannounced projects, I couldn't talk about them. But look in Lion—I'm sure you won't find anything but HFS+ in there."
"By early 2007, people inside Apple took notice," Brady told Ars. "We talked about it at WWDC that year. The talk wasn't even advertised in the official schedule, but the room was packed." Source code for a command line only version was made available on Apple's "Mac OS Forge" open source repository, and developer previews of Leopard included the code. By the time Leopard launched, it was solid enough to support reading ZFS storage pools, even if new ones couldn't be created or managed, nor could any new files be written. "We just suppressed the write code paths," Brady explained.
At one time, there was a lot of hope that Apple might transition from HFS+ to ZFS as a more modern replacement. In particular, ZFS's automatic snapshot feature was believed to be the perfect fit for Apple's Time Machine backup tool. When Snow Leopard was first announced in 2008, it was slated to have full read-write ZFS support, at least in the server version.
But when WWDC 2009 rolled around, all mention of ZFS support was scrubbed from Apple's website. A patent infringement lawsuit was still pending between NetApp and Sun, with NetApp claiming that it held patents on copy-on-write. Furthermore, Sun's CDDL open source license was also believed to make ZFS incompatible with Mac OS X, and that Apple couldn't reach suitable license terms with Sun. (Brady told Ars he was not at liberty to share any details on that particular point.) Whatever the reason, ZFS support from Apple was dead.
(The open source community has continued work on the open source code that was available from Apple before it shut down Mac OS Forge. That project, MacZFS, is hosted on Google Code.)
"As you can imagine, it was tough on the team to have all the uncertainty and not be able to talk about it," Brady said. So he left the file system group in the fall of 2009 for the kernel group, focusing on core OS features. And those other internal projects for a new file system? "If I had any knowledge of unannounced projects, I couldn't talk about them," Brady said. "But look in Lion—I'm sure you won't find anything but HFS+ in there."


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Lost in Suburbia: And the Academy Award goes to …
"Do you want to see a movie tonight?" asked my husband.
It was a perfectly reasonable question. It was a Saturday afternoon. We had no plans. But having been married to this guy for 20 years, I knew this question wasn't as innocent as it seemed. There was a hidden meaning. It was actually code for, "Do you want to see that new action movie with lots of special effects, a huge body count and bad guys with fake foreign accents?"
"What did you have in mind?" I asked innocently.
"The new James Bond movie," he responded.
I snorted to myself. My husband and I have a lot of similar tastes, which is probably one of the reasons we have stayed married so long. But when it comes to movies, we are clearly divided along gender lines. He likes sports-themed films and big action movies, and I like chick flicks. This is not to say that I don't like an occasional football film or action movie, too. I was actually sitting in an action movie when I went into labor with my son. Truthfully, it's much easier to have contractions when things are blowing up on screen than when two people are discussing their relationship issues. But I like to mix it up and every once in a while see a good rom-com or foreign film or something that does not include zombies, intergalactic battles, Tom Cruise rappelling off a building, or men in tight spandex superhero costumes. Actually scratch that last one. I'm OK with that.
On the flip side, my husband is not much of a fan of chick flicks. Although he admits that seeing one is a good opportunity for him to catch up on his sleep, most of the time, I have to drag him kicking and screaming with promises of large quantities of Twizzlers to get him to go. Then he will sit in his seat, chewing Twizzlers and looking wistfully at the wall separating the multiplex where sounds of extreme violence and things exploding come from the theater next door.
This being the case, when he asked me to see another action film, he knew that it was going to be a tough sell, so he decided to take a different tack .
"'Skyfall' is an action movie, but at it's heart it's really a love story," he said.
"How do you figure?" I wondered.
"The movie is about the unresolved relationship between Bond and Miss Moneypenny," he explained. "It's really a romance with some action thrown in."
Having seen a dozen or so other James Bond movies, I was fairly certain this description was about as fitting as calling "The Godfather" a comedy. Although I was impressed that he had obviously put a great deal of effort into this argument, I still wasn't biting.
"Actually, I had something else in mind," I replied. "There's this new baseball movie I think you'd really like that I'd be willing to see."
"Baseball? Cool! What's it called?"
"Pitch Perfect."
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The Who is a British rock band of 1960"s and 1970"s fame. Noted for the dynamism of their live performances and for their thoughtful music, they are also acknowledged as having been rock pioneers, popularizing among other things the power chord and the rock opera (most notably the immortal "Tommy") under the leadership of Pete Townshend. Their earlier "mod" albums, which boasted short, aggressive pop songs, Pete Townshend"s distinctive power chords, and constant themes of youthful rebellion and romantic confusion, were formative influences on punk rock and power pop. Entertainment-wise, they were famous for destroying their instruments at the end of shows (especially Townshend, whose guitar-smashing would become a rock cliche), and infamous wildman Keith Moon added to the band"s reputation with frequent shows of destruction, such as destroying hotel rooms (another eventual cliche) and, according to rumor, driving his Rolls Royce into a swimming pool intentionally; although this incident never actually happened, it does seem like something the eccentric Moon would do. The original band members were: * Pete Townshend - guitar, primary composer, piano & synthesizer on studio recordings * Roger Daltrey - vocals, harmonica * Keith Moon - drummer * John Entwistle - bass guitar, brass instruments The band"s classic era, and in many respects the band itself, ended in 1978 with the untimely death of the inimitable Keith Moon. Sounds and performances On stage Early years Each of the eventual band members played in various early versions of The Who and in other groups.


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Google Fiber is ready to expand, as Google has identified nine metro areas scattered around the country as possible sites of deployment, the company said.
"We've invited 34 cities in nine metro areas across the US to work with us to explore what it would take to build a new fiber-optic network in their community," Google said in an announcement today. "Many of these cities asked for Google Fiber in 2010 and have since continued to try to bring better Internet access to their residents."
Google is "hitting the road" to meet with these cities, and "conducting detailed studies of factors that affect construction plans in each place, like topography (e.g. hills, flood zones), housing density, and the condition of local infrastructure."
There's no guarantee for any of these cities. Google is asking municipal officials to do the following:
- Provide detailed, accurate maps—e.g. of existing infrastructure like utility poles, conduits, and water, gas, and electricity lines.
- Ensure the company can access and put its fiber on existing poles or conduits—since it doesn't want to dig up streets unnecessarily or put up duplicate poles.
- Review permitting processes to make sure cities can handle as much as 100x their usual number of permit requests—once it starts building, Google wants to move quickly and on a predictable schedule.
Google said it "genuinely would like to build in all of these cities," but that the complexities of deploying networks may not allow it. "During this process, we will work with each city to map out in detail what it would look like to build a new fiber-optic network there," Google said. "The most important part of this teamwork will be identifying what obstacles might pop up during network construction—and then working together to find the smoothest path around those obstacles. Some might be easy, some might take some creative thinking or a few months to iron out, and in some cases there might be such local complexities that we decide it's not the right time to build Google Fiber there."
A Google spokesperson told Ars that "[w]e want to bring Fiber to all of these cities, and would be prepared to build in each of them."
Google Fiber went live in Kansas City in late 2012, and recently began serving customers in Provo, Utah. The company has begun construction in Austin, Texas, with a plan to hook up the first customers later this year.
Google said it will provide updates on which other cities will get Google Fiber before this year is over. The 34 cities being considered are Phoenix, Scottsdale, and Tempe in Arizona; San Jose, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, and Palo Alto in California; Atlanta, Avondale Estates, Brookhaven, College Park, Decatur, East Point, Hapeville, Sandy Springs, and Smyrna in Georgia; Nashville-Davidson in Tennessee; Charlotte, Carrboro, Cary, Chapel Hill, Durham, Garner, Morrisville, and Raleigh in North Carolina; Portland, Beaverton, Hillsboro, Gresham, Lake Oswego, and Tigard in Oregon; San Antonio in Texas; and Salt Lake City in Utah.
Google Fiber in Kansas City offers gigabit Internet for $70 a month or gigabit Internet and TV for $120 a month. A 5Mbps service is offered at no monthly charge, but requires payment of a one-time $300 construction fee. That construction is waived for customers who buy the gigabit service.
Monthly prices are the same in Provo, but all three types of plans require a one-time construction of just $30 because in Provo, Google was able to buy and upgrade an existing network.


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A local prosecutor says he believes two men who have alleged that a former Syracuse University assistant basketball coach sexually abused them when they were children are credible — but can't pursue charges because the statute of limitations has passed.
The Associated Press reports that the decision by Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick only means that there won't be a case brought against Bernie Fine under state law. "A federal probe is ongoing," AP notes.
But as the AP has also reported, the clock is ticking on that investigation. It centers on an allegation from another man who is now 23-years-old and "the federal statute of limitations in effect in 2002 allows prosecution until the victim reaches age 25."
Fine, who through his attorneys has said he never sexually abused anyone, was fired by the university on Nov. 27. The accusations against him began with allegations from two former ball boys with the team who say he abused them in the early and mid-1980s.
The news of the allegations against Fine followed closely the scandal at Penn State University, where former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky faces 40 criminal counts related to the alleged sexual abuse of eight boys over more than a decade. Sandusky has said he's innocent. Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno and university President Graham Spanier lost their jobs after a grand jury reported that they had been told about at least some of Sandusky's alleged acts and did not alert authorities.
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Emergency and rescue crews respond to the scene of a tour bus crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike on Saturday, March 16, 2013 near Carlisle, Pa. (Photo: AP)
(TheBlaze/AP) -- A road trip by a college women's lacrosse team came to a horrifying end Saturday when the team bus veered off the Pennsylvania Turnpike and crashed into a tree, killing a pregnant coach, her unborn child, and the driver, and injuring numerous others, authorities said.
Seton Hill University team players and coaches were among the 23 people aboard when the bus crashed just before 9 a.m. No other vehicle was involved, and police could not immediately say what caused the accident.
Coach Kristina Quigley, 30, of Greensburg was flown to a hospital but died there of injuries she suffered in the crash, Cumberland County authorities said. Quigley was about six-months pregnant and her unborn child did not survive, authorities said. The bus driver, Anthony Guaetta, 61, of Johnstown, died at the scene.
This undated photo provided by Seton Hill University shows women's college lacrosse coach Kristina Quigley. (Photo: AP/Seton Hall University)
The other passengers were removed from the bus within an hour and taken to hospitals as a precaution. The collision appeared to have shorn away the front left side of the bus, which rested upright about 70 yards from the road at the bottom of a grassy slope.
The lacrosse team was headed to play Saturday afternoon at Millersville University, about 50 miles from the crash site in central Pennsylvania, for its fourth game of the year.
Both Saturday's game and a Sunday home game were canceled after the crash, and Seton Hill, a Catholic school of about 2,500 students near Pittsburgh, said a memorial Mass was planned for Sunday night on campus.
Quigley, a native of Baltimore, was married and had a young son, Gavin, the school said.
Duquesne University women's lacrosse coach Mike Scerbo remembered Quigley as a warm, outgoing person who immediately impressed him when he hired her to be an assistant during the 2008 season.
Quigley, also a Duquesne alum, spent just one season under Scerbo before moving to South Carolina to start Erskine College's NCAA Division II program.
"In that time, I really saw how much passion she had to be a coach, and how much she enjoyed working with the kids," Scerbo said. "She was a teacher, and she wanted to help kids grow and learn, not just about the sport, but about life."
She spent three years at Erskine before taking the top job at Seton Hill for the 2012 season. She stayed in touch with Scerbo, often seeking his guidance and showing up at the Duquesne alumni game.
"She was a very happy person, very passionate about life, about her players, about her job and most importantly about her family," Scerbo said.
The bus operator, Mlaker Charter & Tours, of Davidsville, Pa., is up to date on its inspections, which include bus and driver safety checks, said Jennifer Kocher, a spokeswoman for the state Public Utility Commission, which regulates bus companies.
The agency's motor safety inspectors could think of no accidents or violations involving the company that would raise a red flag, she said, though complete safety records were not available Saturday.
Rescue personnel remove a tarp after a tour bus crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike on Saturday, March 16, 2013 near Carlisle, Pa. (Photo: AP)
State environmental officials were also sent to the scene because of a diesel fuel spill from the bus.
On Tuesday, another bus carrying college lacrosse players from a Vermont team was hit by a sports car that spun out of control on a wet highway in upstate New York, sending the bus toppling onto its side, police said. One person in the car died.
And last month, a bus carrying 42 high school students from the Philadelphia area and their chaperones slammed into an overpass in Boston, injuring 35. Authorities said the driver had directed the bus onto a road with a height limit.
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It's time to re-introduce my plan to revolutionize baseball
Pat Cunningham
In an exchange with a Facebook friend of mine this morning, I had occasion to trot out this blog post from a year ago:
Imagine, if you will, this kind of baseball game:
The home team is coming to bat in the bottom of the ninth inning, trailing by four runs, but none of the fans is headed for the parking lot. Rather, there's a sense of anticipation. Hey, four runs aren't so many in a game in which a run is tallied every time a player reaches a base.
It'a system I call Total Baseball (since total bases are what count most), and it could ...


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BEIJING — Chinese authorities blocked an annual independent film festival from opening Saturday, seizing documents and films from organizers and hauling away two event officials in a sign that Beijing is stepping up its already tight ideological controls.
Li Xianting, a film critic and founder of the Li Xianting Film Fund, the organizer of the Beijing Independent Film Festival, said police searched his office and confiscated materials he had gathered over more than 10 years. Li and the festival's artistic director, Wang Hongwei, were later detained by police, according to their supporters.
The festival, which began in 2006, has seen severe police obstruction over the past few years, but this year's crackdown is far more serious, Wang said.
"In the past few years, when they forced us to cancel the festival, we just moved it to other places, or delayed the screenings," he said. "But this year, we cannot carry on with the festival. It is completely forbidden."
Over the past week, Li posted memos saying government security personnel were pressuring him to cancel the festival, and that he had come under police surveillance.
"It's very clear that the (President) Xi Jinping regime is determined to control the ideological realm, which has not been emphasized so much for a long time," said Chris Berry, professor of film studies at King's College London in England.
But Berry said that China is not new to shutting down independent film festivals, and that the ill treatment of the Beijing festival does not mark the end of the country's independent filmmaking, as filmmakers have found more venues in an increasingly diverse environment.
The boom in the mainstream movie industry, the rise of galleries that curate artwork based on moving images, and the Internet all have provided new opportunities, he said.
"Let's not be totally pessimistic," he said.
Police in the Beijing suburb of Songzhuang, where the event was supposed to open, said Saturday that they were unaware the festival had been canceled. But security was tight at the site, with about two dozen men blocking the area and preventing around 30 film directors and members of the public from entering.
The men, claiming to be villagers, tried to stop anyone from photographing or videotaping the scene, and in a scuffle, broke a video camera an Associated Press journalist was operating and took away another AP journalist's cellphone. The phone was later returned.
Hu Jie, a movie director who traveled from the eastern city of Nanjing to attend the festival, was upset at the cancellation.
"The audience for my films is already quite small, perhaps because I make documentaries that talk about history," Hu said. "If one of the rare film festivals, like the Beijing Independent Film festival, is shot down, then it will be very difficult for us to survive as filmmakers."
Started as a film forum, the festival over the years has grown to be one of the most important events for China's independent films, but also has attracted the attention of authorities eager to regulate free speech.
In 2012, electricity was cut off shortly after the festival opened, but organizers still managed to show some new movies. Last year, the festival went on, although public screenings were banned.
In the memos that he posted, Li said police put him and the fund's office under surveillance August 18, when this year's festival's poster and schedule were released online.
He said local authorities initially agreed to a compromise that the festival be moved to a town farther out in neighboring Hebei province, but that the management of the hotel where reservations had been made informed the fund on Friday that police were not allowing it to host the festival.
Li said the festival's executive director, Fan Rong, and Wang were taken away by Songzhuang police on Friday afternoon and forced to sign a letter of promise to cancel the festival, before being freed five hours later. He said employees of the film fund were also informed that the electricity to the office would be cut off starting Saturday.
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